She had previous experience. She was … probably around Aslan’s age, give or take. The doctor liked that Aslan could deal with corpses, at least. He sipped his tea.

When Dr. Witaker mentioned the girl was mute rather than just quiet, Aslan looked back to her. He signed ‘hello’ with a smile to her … then realized the facial aspects were probably unnecessary because she was mute, not deaf. He went back to his tea.

He nodded in agreement to Dr. Witaker’s words. Couldn’t think of any way to say ‘I know plenty of prostitutes’ without sounding like he had some sort of other problem, and so he kept his mouth shut.